Arteriorrhaphy is the medical term for suture of an artery. This is when a surgeon will close up an artery. If an artery was severed, they would reattach both sides of the blood vessel walls, like stitching up a deep cut. A related term, angiorrhaphy, means suture of any vessel.
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Pericardiorrhaphy means to suture the tissue surrounding the heart. Cardiorrhaphy is surgical suture of the heart itself.
Pericardiorrhaphy
Ventriculorrhaphy is the medical term meaning surgical suture of the ventricle. Ventriculorrhaphy may be used to repair a laceration to the wall of the heart's lower chambers.
Abdominal aneurysmorrhaphy is the medical term meaning suture of an abdominal aneurysm. A localized balloonlike enlargement of an artery is an aneurysm.
Myocardiorrhaphy is the medical term meaning surgical suture of the heart muscle. -rrhaphy is the combining form meaning surgical suture.
Coronary artery disease caused by atherosclerosis
Thromboangiitis is the medical term meaning inflammation of the artery with a thrombus.
It is called an Aneurysm